Tweets of the Week: Debt Ceiling Edition

As President Obama continues to urge Senate Democrats and Republicans to compromise on a plan to raise the debt ceiling, he also implored American people to “let your members of Congress know. Make a phone call. Send an email. Tweet. Keep the pressure on Washington, and we can get past this.” Citizen calls flooded the Congressional switchboards earlier this week. Celebrities, comedians and politicians took to Twitter to lend their voices.

Read some of their tweets here.

Stephen Colbert: 1 week until default. Trying to get in as many tweets as I can before grid goes down and the high council of cannibal elders take over.